Privately owned Cooke Optics, headquartered in the UK, was founded in 1893 and employs approximately 150 individuals. The company reported $15.9M in revenue as of 2025. Specializing in content acquisition, Cooke Optics manufactures cinematography lenses and optics for the motion picture, television, and advertising industries. The company offers a full range of primes and zooms for 35mm, digital, and Super 16mm photography, in addition to a range of large format stills lenses, and its products are noted for rendering characteristics that provide dimensionality and high contrast.
On August 6, 2026, Cooke Optics' AP3 lenses were featured in "Masha," a short film commissioned by Sony to showcase its FX5 camera. Cinematographer Ula Pontikos BSC shot the film, which she co-directed with Sophie Ebrard, on location in the Scottish Highlands. Earlier, on August 3, 2026, Cooke Optics made Nikon Z-mounts available for its SP3 and AP3 mirrorless-lens series, allowing users to easily switch to the Z-mount via user-interchangeable mounts. This development followed the company's July 30, 2026, announcement that it added Nikon Z to its mirrorless lens mount options for the SP3 and AP3 compact lens series. This expansion, facilitated by a licensing agreement with Nikon, enables filmmakers to natively mount the spherical and anamorphic prime lenses onto Nikon Z bodies and RED cinema cameras featuring the Z mount. This new option joins existing mount choices, including Sony E, L-Mount, Canon RF, and Leica M. Cooke initially introduced the SP3 range of cinema prime lenses in September 2023, a five-lens series each equipped with a T2.4 aperture.
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Cooke Optics offers products in the media tech industry. Cooke Optics's product portfolio comprises of content acquisition.
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Cooke Optics's revenues were less than $25M in 2025. All the revenue comes from camera lenses.
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